New tees mower

The club has recently purchased a second hand greens mower which is now in action cutting tees and short surrounds around the greens. This has improved the quality of cut of these surfaces and replaces the old greens mower that we were using for this job which was on its last legs. The mower is a Toro Greens mower and looks something like the one below:

Course Update

The greens are coming along well after the major renovation for the year. They were lightly top dressed again on the Monday of this week to fill in any of the remaining core holes and smooth the surface. They are currently being cut at 4 mm and will be back to the normal cutting height of 3.2 mm by next weekend. The course is playing pretty easy at the moment with the softer and slower greens and the harder fairways.

Some pruning and thinning of the Casuarinas beside the main dam on the left of the 18th has made maintenance mowing around these much easier. This also enables players to get a view of the dam and the green from the tee. Players will now have a better chance of seeing if their ball has entered the hazard and hence will be able to make a better judgement of the next course of action.

Rake placement in bunkers continues to be a problem with most players leaving rakes on the side of the bunker. Some of these are placed neatly up on the slope of the bunker and it appears that players don't know what to do. After raking the bunker the rake should be placed in the base of the bunker pointing in the direction of play. Below are a couple of photos of 'how not to' and 'how to' place the rakes in a bunker. The first photo is how I found the rake in a bunker on the 17th.

Wrong way

Right way